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OREGON EX-SENATOR
Brownell, One of Oregon's
Brightest Politicians, Tells of
the Corruption Under the Old
System Whpre the Machine
Ruled.
PEOPLE ARE NOT IN POWER
Tito Interests Control tlio Politi
cians, the Politicians Dictate the
Klection of Convention Delegates
and Thereby Take tho Selection of
Officers nnd the Making of Plat
forms Out of tho People's Hands,
to Their Loss and tho Interests'
Gain.
motion, through tho various chan
nels dominated and controlled by
them, influences that would roach
every member of tho United States
senate, and Mr, Webster and Mr.
Marshall could no moro secure tho
legislation they doslred than a pri-
and got their heads together and tell
these Bame people who would bo a
good man for thoso people to havo
for governor, senator, secretary of
stato or In their stato offices? Why
does the aggregate and combined in
telligence of tho people of this state
require tho assistance of a fow old
lino politicians, and a fow old politi
cal bosses and stato dictators, sup
plemented by a fow now supporters,
to constitute themselves Into nn as
sembly. What benefit could these
men, most of whom will bo actuated
and governed by selfishness and who
will be acting for tho railroads and
vato In the Oregon National Guard
could secure tho command of tho , corporations in and about Portland,
Japanese army.
In other words, in our form of
government, the only real force that;
and to gratify their own ambitions
and their own selfishness, bo to
ward aiding or assisting tho public
has control or is seriously consider-1 mlna of this stato to know whom
ed Is the force that comes from 1 thcv want to hold tho "ubllc offices
proporty rights. A man lu political ff thls state? It strikes me as bo
life who has independent character lnK exceedingly bad taste upon the
and who listens to his consclonco is nart r tne leaders of this movement,
never acceptable to men who control ; as it is a very delicate and round
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Hon. Geo. 0. Brownell delivered
an address before the Commercial
Club In Milwaukee the evening of
June 3rd, which wo give In part, as
follows
I am opposed to the assembly idea
as a matter of principal, not because
I dislike any individual or person
who Is working for or is prominent
in the movement, but because of my
absolute belief In a democracy of tho
people, and because my experience
in political life has led me to bellev
that the only safety for the people at
alj Is to crush the present system of
government that we havo In this
country and adopt in place of it tho
system of popular rule. The reason
I havo come to this conclusion I
that I personally know and bellev
that this country, particularly since
the Civil war has been more corrupt
ly ruled than any other country In
tho civilized world, unless perhaps
it may ho Russia. Now this may be
looked upon as a startling statement
but it is true nevertheless and can
be illustrated in this way: On the
surface, the individual voter is sup
posed to constitute in the aggregat
the government, that is, people are
supposed to bo the government, and
yet as a matter of fact, tho peopl
themselves do not control. Property
and property rights control much of
the newspaper press, which is dom
inated by a few men in New York
Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston
and the largo commercial centers
and is oontrolled by the monlcd and
property Interests so that everything
In both parties is framed up in such
a way that it does not matter much
which way tho individual voter
votes, ho votes only in the end for
what the monlcd and capitalistic in'
torests of the United States deter
mine and want. To illustrate it in
another way, the republican party
or democratic party in power adopt
a platform and then when congress
meets fchey formulate some tariff
law or hill, and tho individual voter
imagines that this Is icu:: by his
uwn representative in centres;! This
in true In a measure, but Uumo siie
representatives In congress take or
ders; they take these orders, not
from the rank and file of tho voters
but they take them from J. P. Mor
gan, Rockefeller, United Steel Trust,
Sugar Trust, railroad interests nnd
iron and steel interests of the United
States, so when you got 'to tho logical
end of tho proposition, It is property
rights and tho selfishness and greed
of the corporations combined repre
sented in the United States senate by
l'.s agents that dictate, at all times,
not only our legislation, but they
dictate our whole system of political
economy, our whole system of tariff
legislation, and the press is dominat
ed by these same forces, nnd they
dictate to the unthinking mind to
believe that these things are right,!
and tho people go on, year after
year, and voto and support the very
forces that aro trying to destroy
them and onrich themsoves at the
expense of the toller and producer.
To illustrate that this is true: Sup
pose that Danlol Webster and John
Marshall, the great chief Justice,
wore both living and .wero both
members of the United States .sonato
and would Introduce a meritorious
measure, a measure that would be
just between the farmer, tho wago
earner, tho producer and tho men
who control the politics, that run our
groat railroads and our great cor
porations, and suppose they stood up
property. These men dominate and
insist upon absolute subsorvency to
their rule. Uhis is Illustrated in
another way. Why is it, if this is
not true, that whenever n president
of the United States comes to make'.
about way and method of saying 10
the Individual voter of tho stato of
Oregon, "You are not intelligent
enough, although you are Intelligent
enough to pay taxes, intelligent
enough to raiso and' educate a fam-
an appointment to fill a vacancy on , llv Intelligent enough to help "build
tho supreme bench of tho United ! UP this country and to perform all of
States or of the United States circuit 1 yur duties as a citizen thereof,, but
court or district court that the first yu aro not lntolllgenWnough to go
question that ho always determines to the poles and pick out tho men you
is what are tho Influences bohihd want for Governor, for stato senator,
this man; how does ho stand upon for sheriff, for secretary of state, or
tho questions affecting capital and for United States senator without
labor, and what havo been his en- having a few hundred selected and
vironments and associations relative Belt appointed individuals come down
to the forces of property and tho to Portland and consult not with you
monied Interests. Now if this man tho individual voter, but with them
whose name is mentioned Is satis- selves as a select body, and then
factory to tho. banking and railroad formulato a ticket containing tho
interests ho will be appointed; if "he names of men who theso self inter
is not he will not bo appointed. Now ested and constituted individuals
why is this, unless it goes to provo would bo satisfied to havo in public
that from tho president of the United office." In othor words, an assembly
States down, all mon having power movement moans that a selected few,
cannot obtain that powor under tho a self appointed fow, dominated by
present system of government until tho spirit of selfishness and arrog
they make their peace with men rep- anco that they thomselves assume,
resenting property rights? Tako an- know aioro than tho combined in
other view; look at tho cabinet of tolligfenco of tho people of tho stato
Mr. Taft. These men personally aro of O'pgon and that outsido of tho
probably all gentlemen of high char- r-xndred that constitute tho as
acter and good morals, but thoro is semhly tho balance of tho people of
not a single member of the cabinet, tho stato aro Incapable of doing their
unless It may bo tho secretary of own thinking, but must let these self
tho department of agriculture, who favored few do the thinking, nom
is not an out and out corporation 1'irUing and dictating to tho .balnnco
man, not only a corporation man, of the stato of Oregon. It is right
but a director or attofnoy or agent here that the weak spot of this
of some of tho strongest monied In- whole nssombly business is. Peo-
terests of the United States. Under P,e se0 clearly that tho whole
Mr. Roosevelt's administration,' Mr. movement is simply tho ro-cstab-
Root was secretary of stato, iid at Hshlng of n now machine in tho
the same time attorney and agent tfollt'cs of the stato to be owned,
for Tom Ryan, J. P. Morgan and dominated and controlled by the
that class of monied men in many monied class and tho selfish inter-
of their schemes when tho Metropoll- csts of tho corporation nnd its
tan Rnilroad Company of Now York agents, and is not in tho Interest or
was practically looted out of mil- v-elfaro of tho common pooplo of tho
Hons of money. Mr. Knox, tho pros- sfa,- " tho othor hand, two or
ent secretary of state, has been nn three mon in Multnomah county can
untiring agent professionally for tho wmtrol and dominate a stato con-
Pennsylvania Railroad and Steel ven'fon, why can they not control
Trust for years, and was represent- and dominato a stato assombly, pos
ing them in the senate of tho United slu'y nt as easily, but if you can
States, as Mr. Root Is now represent- dominate four or five hundred men,
ing tho same Interests and not tho why can you not in tho samo mens
interests of tho people in tho United "re manage a larger convention? At
States senate. It is unmistakably least it would be comparatively easy
true that the dominating forces in for a few men in tho assembly,
our politics aro special Interests and after they have it established and In
special privileges, and that these running order, and havo their secret
interests combine in every state In committees throughout the state, to
tho Union to control tho election of very easily manipulate and arrange
the United States senators and con-! the -assembly year after year so that
gressmon as well. lt would result nnd end In being
Is that a Just system and will it nothing moro than a convention con-
produce results that will tend to trolled by nnd carrying out tho will
civic righteousness In tho Unltod t of a fow Individuals.
States of America? Ever slnco tho Why Is it possible that a pooplo
Civil War there has been n strong many of them who aided Abrnham
element among tho pooplo of tho. Lincoln In putting down the great
Unltted States that has favored a Civil War and who by tho porform-
popular olection of the Unltod States anco of tholr civic duties havo mani
fested their superior lntolllgenco, sa
gacity and ability, should havo to bo
tho twenty-five years prior to tho used to secure tho election of United
year 1907, can, with this knowledge, States senators undor the old system,
support an nssombly movomont and Another instanco I can recall is
thorcby indirectly oppose the presont whore a certain man camo within
method of olectlng United States son- ono voto of having a sufficient num
ators Is beyond my comprehension ber of votes to elect him United
and beyond tho comprehension of States senator and the time had
thousands of tho pooplo of this passed the hour when tho Joint as
stato. sembly should adjourn, at midnight,
In 1001, I recall, whllo a member and all this gentlemen's friends wcro
of tho stato sonato of this state, a in suspense how to got that other
certain Individual, then living in voto, and at tho proper tlmo a ells
Portland and then a candidate for tlngulshed gontloman who had been
tho United States sonato, whoso on tho pay roll of tho United States
strikers, agents and friends bought for many years and was then a very
men nnd paid them in money and active member of tho old machine,
whiskoy and othor things for their quietly slipped up to a certain mom
votes. . I Temomher ono instanco in ber of tho logislaturo and whispered
particular ofa member of tho houso in his oar the figure four with threo
pt representatives who was glvon 1 clphorsl' after It, and that man 1m-
senators. Resolutions of 'tills char-
actor have, frequently been intro
duced In tho congress of tho Unltod . told,, oven In a polite way, that thoy
Statos, but it has nover amounted
to anything, and it nover will, for
tho reason that nlno-tonths of tho
senators aro absolutely owned and
controlled by the monied lntonwts
of tho United Statos arid of tho statos
which tliey represent, nnd tho monlcd
interests aro opposed to permitting
tho people to rule, always havo been
and always will bo. Thoro is no
hopo that tho mothod of tho olcoflng
of United States senators will over
bo changed by tho vote of such men
as President Taft, if ho had a voto,
or Mr. Knox, his secrotary of stato,
or Ellhu Root, or Chauncy Depow
of tho stato of Now York, or Halo or
Aldrlch, or Elkins or mon of that
class who really dominato tho sen
ato of the United Statos in tho Inter
est of their mastors, tho monlod in
torests of tho United Statos. Thoro-
foro, I feel that tho assembly plan is
a suhterfUKO and nn Indirect mothod
In the senate without consulting any-:pf destroying tho greatest movement
one, except their own conscience and
their own Judgment, and J. P. Mor
gan, RoQkefoUer, Tom Ryan and a
few of their financial jower did not
want and did not approve of tho
legislation that these two men
wanted, what would be the result?
Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Morgan
could in a period of one hour set in
that hae over been originated in the
United Htatea since the declaration
of Independence.
'Why ii It necessary for tho intelli
gent people of ttole state, who own all
lu property and own It schools, lu
hi'rfhee and lu undeveloped r
aouroee to have a few hundred men
march down to the city of Portland
neod tho nppolntmont of a sort of nd
vlsory hoard consisting of a stato ns
sombly, to advlso thorn how to per
form tholr civic duties nnd to oxor
clso their voting frauchlso in tho
futuro? It seems to mo that this is
simply nothing more or loss than an
Insult to tho Intelligence of the poo
plo of tho stato, and that Portland
with tho romnants of one of tho most
corrupt political machines that this
or any other stato over had, is a
fitting, and proper placo for Its
uirin.
Can wo as a people afford to sup
port this assembly movomont. Is it
not dangerous to tho welfare of the
working and producing people of this
statu that thoy should permit tho
party to be controlled, dictated to
nnd organized by and through an as
sombly which assombly moans in tho
end a scheme to abolish tho presont
methods of olectlng United States
senators and to destroy tho primary
law and to get hack to tho old con
vention machine system whloh dis
graced this stato and the stated of
this eountry for so many years?
How any fair minded man who liaa
been in touch with the corrupt meth
ods of ele tlnK I'ni'ed States senators
In the different states of the Union
ind in this state In particular for
$100 on tho last night of tho session
for every time ho voted for this
Portland man for senator. Tho mau
who gave him tho money was a mem
bor of ono of the leading churches
In tho city of Portland and a vory
flno mnn and a man whom I person
ally think a great deal of, and it
only Illustrates, that this man was
so carried away with the corrupt
surroundings and with his environ
ments that ho, himself, should forget
his christian duty and obligations as
a citizen and as a man, and would
stand thoro In tho cloak room and
as fast as tho representative ballot
ed gave him his $100, a drink of
good old whiskoy, patted him on tho
back and told him to go back and
continuo to voto for tho old man.
This is only ono Instanco of a hun
dred. Tako tho dlfforent stato of
fices. Thoy 'are always traded and
trafficed off as spoils under tho old
system. Tho state printer's offlco
was a corrupt graft, which tho tax
payer had to pay; clerkships, in
cluding men nnd women, woro a
great oxponso to tho tax payers of
this stato, all of which woro bar
tered off, directly or indirectly, as
a part of tho mothod and mnchino of
olectlng United States senators under
tho old system.
Lot us go back to 897 what was
known ns tho "hold-up" year, and
seo where forty or fifty mon, many
of thorn who woro kopt drunk and
intoxicated for days and weeks in
order to keep thorn from taking their
oath of offlco or qualifying, simply
at that tlmo to defeat John H.
Mitchell for United States senator.
Thoro wero places around tho city
of Salom whero theso mon congre
gated whero a decont nnd respect
able woman could not go, thoro wns
a den of prostitutes and evil, -whiskey
and tobacco' smoke as a flavor
for all who called, and this was man
aged by men who woro advocates at
that time of tho old system of olect
lng United States senators by mom
hers of tho legislature If a plcturo
of theso scones could bo taken so It
could bo placed in tho homo of ovory
solf respoctlng votor in tho state of
Oregon so that they could seo what
roally happened and really occurred
in tho years 1897 and 1001 in this
stato, tho nssombly proposition would
not receive twonty-fivo votes in tho
stato of Oregon, outsido of tho old
mnchino politicians who are .really
getting this assombly up in tho in
torost of thomselves, and tho cor
porations and tho clionts which thoy
ropresont.
Tako tho groat stato of Illinois,
tho stato that .gavo us Father Abra
ham Lincoln as a prosodontlal can
dldate, tho stato that gavo ua Grant
as n military hero, tho stato of John
Logan, P.Jchard Qglosby, Owen Love-
Joy nnd mon of that character, dis
graced as they aro today by what is
nppoaring in tho nowspapors rolntlvo
to tho brlbory and methods of olect
lng sonators undor tho old mnchino
systom.
Now this assombly, In this stato,
no mattor whnt its loaders may say
to tho people, Is simply a great big,
political machine in tho dlBguiflo
and undor tho nnmo of a popular
assombly. Can wo afford it?
There aro so many Instancos of
the corrupting influence of oloottng
mediately became a reformer, chang
ed from tho man for whom ho had
been voting for forty days and cast
his voto for tho successful candidate.
I recall another Instance whoro
many thousand dollars of' tho peo
plo's money was appropriated to
satisfy a certain senator, for a norm
al school in his district, in order to
obtain his voto for United State3
senator, costing tho people of tho
stato n groat deal of money.
Now this corruption was not con
fined to any faction of tho republi
can party; tho leading men in both
factions woro equally active and
tholr agents on both sides resorted
to open and notorious bribery.
I can recall another instanco when
a certain man was nominated for
governor in this state under tho mn
ohlno system and convention system,
that It was necessary for the candi
date to put up $10,000 to appease
tho wrath of one gontloman, and
$15,000 to fix up anothor faction .n
tho party. In tho Bame convention,
the stato printer was nominated,
but beforo ho could bo nominated ho
had to divide tho proceeds of his of
fice with two or throe othor mon.
Now'ithoso aro things that absolute
ly occurred nnd occurred within the
last twelve years In the sta'to of
Oregon.
I recall another instanco In 1007,
when a gentleman, then a member
of tho legislature from ono of tho
counties outside of Multnomah was
offorod and received $3,500 to re
main away for two days from what
was known ns tho Mitchell Jofnt ns
sombly, for tho purposo of keeping:
them from getting a sufficien num
ber of votes to organize. This mau
brought a largo portion of this
money, after his two days had ex
pired, and showed it to the Into
Senator Mitchell, the lato Solomon
HIrsch and myself and some othora
in a room in tho Willamotto Hotel
in Salom. Theso men wero only do
ing and what was tho custom and
what wns a part of the system that
then prevailed and that prevails in
ovory stato In tho Union that haa
tho old system of olectlng United
States sonators by tho legislature.
Theso aro cold facts hut they aro
truo, and It is tho result and always
will bo as long as legislators aro
nominated by county conventions--and
have no fear of the popular voto.
You cannot chango this systom or
mothod or stop this corruption br
changing mon, becauso mon will bo
roached somo way, If not by money,
by somo other influence.
Can tho people of tho state or
Oregon, with tho knowlodgo of thoso
things before thorn, willingly entor
Into a movomont, no matter how
finely disguised tho movement may
bo, tho result of which would tend
to organize tho pnrty of. this state
along tho lino of destroying State
ment No. 1, and tho present system
of electing senators.
Anothor reason why tho nssombly
Jdoa or plnn Is objectionable is bo
causo It gives nn opportunity for tho
public survico corporation and tholr
Intorosts to comblno through tho
difforont asHombllos in tho dltfbront
counties, and nnmo and support cer
tain mon for supremo court Judgoa
who would bo named by tho stato ns
sombly and supported by tho dlffer-
sonators by tho old mothod outBldolent cou"ty nssomblios in order to
of the actual purchasing of votes that
It Is startling that tho public has en
dured them so many yoars without
protest. I recall a prornlnont In
dividual who was wearing out his
articulating organs shouting for
Francis J. Honey. tho roformor,
while Mr. Honey wns hero in Port
land. This man acted as a sort of
spy and go-botwoon for Francis J.
Honey and ono of tho Jury commis
sioners whd had in part tho select
ing of tho Jurymen who woro to try
tho Unltod Statos land (rnud oases.
Now this roformor, at ono of tho
senatorial oloctlons, wont to a prorn
lnont man ut tho state cnpltul and
obtained $5000 in monoy to buy a
voto with, claiming that ho could
very easily obtain that voto. Ho
olect tho mon named by tho corpor
ations for suprome court Judges.
Another roason Is: Wo now havo
a railroad commission that Is acting
very Justly and fairly towards tho
shlppors and tho pooplo of tho stato.
and somo of whom aro undoubtedly
objootionablo to tho public sorvico
corporations of- this stato, nnd thoro
Is no doubt but whnt thero Is au or
ganized plan upon tho part, of thoso
corporations nnd tholr agents to
name mon upon tho railroad commis
sion that will bo moro satisfactory
to thoso corporations.
Then why should tho people ot
this stato Bupport tho nssombly p)an
and put In peril tho power which
thoy now possess? Tho argument
Is that tho mon named by this as-
failed to procure tho vote, ajd llko's8rab!y w,u unon t,ie t,okflt' 011,1
a thrifty reformer ho kept tho 1,10 Pon'8 havo th r'Sht to, olippse.
money and refused to return It. I TntB 18 true- with this axeeptjpn;
do not know as ho Is to be blamed ' tnftt thwe m8" Vho aro named by
at all for retaining the money, he 1,18 assembly will be supported
eertejnly was m much entitled to it throughout the state by and through
us nyono olse; but I oply mention ja Mnty organisation eompofied of
It to illustrate the methods that were1 rrnniin,,,i trnm i, t